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Texas Art Teacher Certification Exam

Subjects : teaching, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A coarse - inexpensive - woven fabric; often used for making grain sacks






2. A porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area - Roman buildings followed this Greek architectural style






3. Material used to imbed rings - bracelets - necklaces -etc when making hand-wrought jewelry






4. A matted tangle of hair or fiber






5. Known for his glass sculpture






6. Formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back - leaving the impression on the face






7. A style of abstractionism popular in the 1960s - modern technique with which a painter creates optical illusions with the use of dazzling patterns - abstract art athat uses geometric shapes and vivid colors to create optical illusions - such as an il






8. Pale green






9. French Painter - who started his career as a caricaturist - then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor Boudin. From 1890 he concentrated on series of pictures in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in differe






10. A plain woven lightweight - extremely sheer - airy - and soft silk fabric - containing highly twisted filament yarns. The fabric - used mainly in evening dresses and scarves - can also be made from rayon and other manufactured fibers






11. Date: 1839-1906 Important: Painted Mount Saint Victoire in Aix en- Provence over 60 times. Each painting is different b/c of angle and light -Trust your own eyes - and fanatic for the truth -Light- vibrations of color-Like an impressionist- heavy han






12. Technique of ornamenting in which small grains of metal - usually gold - are soldered to a flat surface






13. Method of painting in which the colors are mixed with egg yolk or other substances - instead of oil






14. Renowned for paintings and prints






15. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines






16. A print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil






17. A plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder - which in turn transfers it to the paper






18. Wrought iron - hammered copper - painted tin NOT pewter






19. A loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads - French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)






20. An enameling technique in which thin wire partitions-cloisons-are filled with enamel. It is an art form practiced in ancient Byzantium






21. French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) - Influences include hard sharp precision of a machine age






22. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops






23. Creates blue dye






24. A water-base paint made with casein (which is a protein precipitated from milk)






25. Produces a red dye - the chemical name for rust






26. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






27. Term used to visualize a recreation of audio-video






28. Spanish founder of cubism; made Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to seek to create a new visual reality and provoke revolutionary upheaval; his figures are broken into large - flat planes with dislocated body parts; used African masks; very non-Western; Gue






29. Incised engraving - the process of printing from engraved plates - a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate - ex: the plate is smeared with ink and Then wiped clean. The ink left in the recesses is what makes the print.






30. Term used to describe the many degrees of shading between black and white






31. Italian 'light-dark'. The gradation of light and dark values in two-dimensional imagery; especially the illusion of rounded - three-dimensional form created through gradations of light and shade rather than line.






32. Joining of two metals above 800F (most common) - the process of joining metal with a filler rod that melts at a temperature below the metal being joined - Uses a molten filler metal to crate joints. Capillary action is required to distribute the fill






33. Printmaking where the design is scratched into the steel plate with a hard - steel tool






34. Pottery that has been fired but not yet glazed.






35. Paintings with the emphasis on inner emotions - sensations - or ideas rather than actual appearances






36. Printing process in which the printing plate that has raised that is rolled with ink to print.






37. Technique of shading using dots to control value






38. Something that supports a sculpture






39. Enameling technique - used more gold and less color than cloisonne. Starts with thick gold piece - cut tiny troughs wherever want color to be - gold is most prominent in end - rarely has patterns engraved.






40. An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing - An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing






41. The threads running from side to side across a fabric; wool






42. Fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure - Fusing two pieces of material using a heat process; most commonly used with metal and plastics






43. A solid screen - covered with icons - at the front of the church - dividing the sanctuary from the body of the building.






44. Emphasis of this architecture is on the horizontal






45. The dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light; what we know as the color names blue - green - and so forth.






46. Made possible by the contrariety between grease and water - printing produced through the use of ink on a flat surface (e.g. - stone or metal - A print produced by a printing process in which a smooth surface is treated so that the ink will adhere on






47. Processes designed to produce tonal effects






48. This technique is so called because its finished prints often resemble watercolors or wash drawings. It is a favorite method of printmakers to achieve a wide range of tonal values. The technique consists of exposing the plate to acid through a layer






49. A coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue - stiff-finished cotton or linen used for linings of garments






50. To raise a relief design on the surface of paper through pressure-raised paper to form image - with or without ink printed